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REMINDER: CFP – Intersectional Automations: Robotics, AI, Algorithms, and Equity (Abstracts due 1 April 19)
by n_rambukkana＠complexsingularities.net 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

(with apologies for x-posting) Intersectional Automations: Robotics, AI, Algorithms, and Equity Edited Collection (Abstracts Due 1 April 2019 (pdf version here: http://complexsingularities.net/cfp-intersectional-automations-edited-colle… <http://complexsingularities.net/cfp-intersectional-automations-edited-colle…>) This collection will explore a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with intersectional social justice issues, such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability and citizenship. Some call it the 4th industrial revolution (Brinded, 2016; Kaplan, 2015). Robots, AI, and algorithms have grown from their early uptake in some industries (such as robots in manufacturing) to an accelerating presence in other spheres ranging from customer service roles (for example, reception, check-outs, food service, driving) to professional and creative roles previously unheard-of and un-thought-of (for example, expert legal and medical systems, automated journalism, musical and artistic production (Kaplan, 2016; Ramalho, 2017; Hirsch, 2017)). The World Economic Forum warns that “this will lead to a net loss of over 5 million jobs in 15 major developed and emerging economies by 2020” (Brinded, 2016), a serious challenge to ethical labour practices, and potential looming crisis leading some to consider alternative societal models—such as Universal Basic Income (Frase, 2016), or a robot tax (Walker, 2017)—to compensate. Meanwhile, there is marked evidence that robots, AI, biotechnology, and algorithms are becoming in general and over-top of employment roles more integrated in human societies. Human-machine communication (HMC) has moved from an important yet somewhat-marginal field to lodge itself at the centre of societal workings and visions for the future. From autonomous vehicles (Bowles, 2016), to the algorithmic filtering of search results (Noble, 2018) and social media content (Gillespie, 2018), from online harassment and political boosterism via bots (Dewey, 2016; Woolley, Shorey, & Howard, 2018), to sex robots (Levy, 2007; Danaher & MacArthur, 2017), from ubiquitous AI assistants in our homes and smart devices (Guzman, 2019), to wearable tech that tracks and shares our biometric data (Forlano, 2019) and/or extends our biological capacities (Brooks, 2003; Jones, 2019), such technologies are rapidly mapping themselves onto almost every conceivable realm of human experience. And yet, there is mounting evidence that the creation and programming of robots, AI, and algorithms, being artifacts of human culture, do not escape that context, sometimes carrying into their computational logics, platforms and/or embodiments stereotypes, biases, exclusions, and other forms of privilege. One can think of True Companion’s Roxxxy sex robots that some argue have personality types based on racist and sexist stereotypes of womenhood, for example the Barely-18 “Young Yoko” and resistant “Frigid Farah” that, as Gildea and Richardson (2017) note, seem to fetishize underage girls and sexual assault. Or you could think of the abandoned Amazon HR algorithm which, after being fed years of resumes and hiring decisions, used computational logic to identify traits that that were historically associated with Amazon hiring decisions, with the view of automating part of the hiring process, and encoded a preexisting sexism from the HR data that showed that applicants with work experience or activities that included the word “Women’s,” or who were educated at all-women colleges, were often not hired (Jones, 2018). Finally, one could contemplate how polities using data aggregation and predictive algorithms to manage and make decisions about social programs, resource allocation, or policing can end up targeting and profiling poor or racialized populations, with occasionally terrifying results—such as any mistake on an online application being interpreted by an automated system as “failure to cooperate” (Eubanks, 2017). This edited collection will draw an analytical circle around these interconnected and adjacent issues, lending a critical eye to what is at stake due to the automation of aspects of culture. How do equity issues intersect with these fields? Are the pronouncements always already dire, or are there also lines of flight towards more equitable futures in which agentic artefacts and extensions can play an active part? Chapters may address one or multiple equity issues, and submissions that address emergent intersections between them will be given special consideration. Proposed chapters may address topics such as, but not limited to: – Algorithmic classism, ableism, racism, and sexism, including issues surrounding content moderation on social media (e.g., Gillespie, 2018), redlining/weblining (e.g., Eubanks, 2017), business (e.g., Jones, 2018), big data (e.g., Ferguson, 2017), or military practices such Google’s controversial Project Maven (e.g., Holt, 2018). Algorithm use to address the same issues. – Issues around robotic labour and poverty, Universal Basic Income, robotic utopia/dystopias (e.g., Frase, 2016, Kaplan, 2016). – Issues around the use of deadly autonomous or semi-autonomous robots by the military or non-state actors, such as work surrounding the Campaign Against Killer Robots (e.g., Anderson & Waxman, 2012; Crootof, 2015; Gregory, 2011; Karppi, Bolen, & Granata, 2016). – Issues surrounding sex-robotics, teledildonics, VR, and AI sexuality, including stereotypical, and sexist sex robotic “personalities” and embodiments (e.g., Gildea & Richardson, 2017); sex robots based on real people without consent (e.g., Gee, 2017); The Campaign Against Sex Robots (e.g., Richardson, 2015; Danaher, Earp, & Sandberg, 2017); teledildonic / VR steam hacking and consent (e.g., Rambukkana & Gautier, 2017; Belamire, 2016); the interplay between robotic brothels and sex worker rights and protests (e.g., Morrish, 2017; Trayner, 2017; Danaher, Earp, & Sandberg, 2017); bots masquerading as real people on dating sites (e.g., Light, 2016; Karppi, 2018); deepfakes and pornography (e.g., Maras & Alexandrou, 2018). Progressive steps to address such issues or to create new sexual futures. – The politics and ethics of the singularity (e.g., Korb & Nicholson, 2012) and the future status of robotic and AI workers with respect to labour, citizenship, and human rights—for example, work on Hansen Robotics’ Sophia as Saudi citizen (e.g., Weller, 2017), robotic servitude (e.g., Green, 2016), as well as the rights of humans interacting with AI (e.g., Shepherd, 2019). – Assumptions, representations, and discourse surrounding dis/ability and human augmentics, including “supercrip” and “cyborg” discourses and the potential tensions between feminist technoscience (e.g., Haraway, 1990) and critical disability studies (e.g., Allan, 2016; Cascais, 2013). – How any of these or other issues are depicted in popular or fringe fictions that contain robotic or AI characters (for example, Humans, Neuromancer, Extant, Westworld, Her, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, Ghost in the Shell, Altered Carbon, Black Mirror, Speak, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Questionable Content, etc.) My goal is to assemble a collection of exemplary abstracts and then approach some top-tier academic publishers with relevant series. If interested, please send a 750-word abstract, collection of keywords, and a 150-word bio to the editor, Dr. Nathan Rambukkana (n_rambukkana(a)complexsingularities.net) by 1 April 2019. Drafts will be due 1 October 2019 and final versions 1 April 2020. Please also email Nathan at the above address if you have any questions and feel free to repost this CFP to your networks. References Allan, K. (2016). Categories of disability in science fiction. Retrieved from http://www.academiceditingcanada.ca/blog/item/317-disability-in-sf-article <http://www.academiceditingcanada.ca/blog/item/317-disability-in-sf-article> Anderson, K., & Waxman, M. (2012, December). Law and ethics of robot soldiers. Policy Review. Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 12-313.American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2012-32. Belamire, J. (2016, October 21). My first virtual reality groping. Mic. 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Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project. Engadget. Retrieved from https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/14/google-project-maven-employee-protest/ <https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/14/google-project-maven-employee-protest/> Jones, R. (2018, October 10). Amazc on's secret AI hiring tool reportedly 'penalized' resumes with the word 'women's'. Gizmodo. Retrieved from https://gizmodo.com/amazons-secret-ai-hiring-tool-reportedly-penalized-resu… <https://gizmodo.com/amazons-secret-ai-hiring-tool-reportedly-penalized-resu…> Jones, S. (2019). Untitled, no. 1 (human augmentics). In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A networked self and human augmentics, artificial intelligence, sentience (pp. 201–205). New York: Routledge. Kaplan, J. (2015, August 23). Robots are coming for your job: We must fix income inequality, volatile job markets now — or face sustained turmoil. Salon. Retrieved from https://www.salon.com/2015/08/23/robots_are_coming_for_your_job_we_must_fix… <https://www.salon.com/2015/08/23/robots_are_coming_for_your_job_we_must_fix…> Karppi, T. (2018). “How angels are made”: Ashley Madison and the social bot affair. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A networked self and love (pp. 173–188). New York: Routledge. Karppi, T., Bolen, M., & Granata, Y. (2016, October 16). Killer Robots as cultural techniques. International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1367877916671425 <https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1367877916671425> Korb, K. B., & Nicholson, A. E. (2012, March). Ethics of the singularity. Issues. Retrieved from http://www.issuesmagazine.com.au/article/issue-march-2012/ethics-singularit… <http://www.issuesmagazine.com.au/article/issue-march-2012/ethics-singularit…> Levy, D. (2007). Love + sex with robots : The evolution of human–robot relationships. New York: Harper. Light, B. (2016). The rise of speculative robots: Hooking up with the bots of Ashley Madison. First Monday: Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet, 6(6). Retrieved from http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6426 <http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6426> Maras, M.,-H. & Alexandrou, A. (2018, October 28). Determining authenticity of video evidence in the age of artificial intelligence and in the wake of Deepfake videos. International Journal of Evidence & Proof. https://doi.org/10.1177/1365712718807226 <https://doi.org/10.1177/1365712718807226> Morrish, L. (2017, April 28). A Sex Doll Brothel Is Set To Open In The UK. Konbini. Retrieved from http://www.konbini.com/en/lifestyle/sex-doll-brothel-uk/ <http://www.konbini.com/en/lifestyle/sex-doll-brothel-uk/> Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. New York: NYU Press. Ramalho, A. (2017). Will robots rule the (artistic) world?: A proposed model for the legal status of creations by artificial intelligence systems. Journal of Internet Law, 21(1), 11–25. Rambukkana, N., & Gautier, M. (2017). L’adultère à l’ère numérique : Une discussion sur la non/monogamie et le développement des technologies numériques à partir du cas Ashley Madison. Genre, Séxuality et Société, 17. Retrieved from https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3981 <https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3981> Richardson, K. (2015, September 15). Welcome to the Campaign Against Sex Robots. Campaign Against Sex Robots. Retrieved from https://campaignagainstsexrobots.org/2015/09/15/welcome-to-the-campaign-aga… <https://campaignagainstsexrobots.org/2015/09/15/welcome-to-the-campaign-aga…> Shepherd, T. (2019). AI, the persona, and rights. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A networked self and human augmentics, artificial intelligence, sentience (pp. 187–200). New York: Routledge. Trayner, D. (2017, March 17). First sex doll brothel in Europe shut down one month after opening before police raid. Daily Star. Retrieved from https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/597431/lumidolls-europe-first-… <https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/597431/lumidolls-europe-first-…> Walker, J. (2017, October 24). Robot tax – A summary of arguments “for” and “against”. Tech Emergence. Retrieved from https://emerj.com/ai-sector-overviews/robot-tax-summary-arguments/ <https://emerj.com/ai-sector-overviews/robot-tax-summary-arguments/> Weller, C. (2017, October 26). A robot that once said it would 'destroy humans' just became the first robot citizen. Business Insider. Retrieved from https://www.businessinsider.com/sophia-robot-citizenship-in-saudi-arabia-th… <https://www.businessinsider.com/sophia-robot-citizenship-in-saudi-arabia-th…> Woolley, S., Shorey, S., & Howard, P. (2018). The bot proxy: Designing automated self expression. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A networked self and platforms, stories, connections (pp. 59–76). Ed. Z. Papacharissi. New York: Routledge. -- "We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them." — Michel Foucault Dr. Nathan Rambukkana Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo DAWB 3-136 75 University Ave W Waterloo ON Canada N2L3C5 email: nrambukkana(a)wlu.ca <mailto:nrambukkana@wlu.ca> web: http://complexsingularities.net <http://complexsingularities.net/>

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Need Journal Recommendations - Cryptocurrencies
by Oğuz Kuş 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Hi all, I have started to co-work on a paper which attempts to reveal relation between technology acceptance parameters and cryptocurrency usage within the context of digital transformation. Actually, I am relatively new to cryptocurrency topic and I am creating a list of useful journals for literature and also potential journals to be published on. So, is it possible to recommend me possible journals that you know? I would be more than happy for any information and thanks in advance! Oğuz Kuş Research Assistant, PhD Candidate Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication Public Relations and Publicity, Beyazıt/İSTANBUL Tel/Istanbul: 0090 212 440 00 00 (11427) _________________________ Publications in 2018: Kuş, O. "Algoritmalar ve Filtre Baloncuğu Çağında Marka Değerinin Yönetilmesi Sorunsalı Üzerine", in Kolektif Zeka - Yeni Medya Perspektifinden Katkılar <https://yenimedya.wordpress.com/2018/10/04/yeni-bir-kitap-kolektif-zeka/>, Morva, Oya; Saka, Erkan, Eds., Kalkedon, 2018 Kuş, O., Efremov L., Suhadolc J., "Digital Marketing and Big Data: Crossing Paths in the Age of Digital Transformation <https://www.academia.edu/36649272/Digital_Marketing_and_Big_Data_Crossing_P…>", in: Linking Business And Communication From A Sparkle To A Flame, Ašanin Gole, Pedja, Ed., DOBA Business School, Maribor, pp.127-140, 2018 Kuş, O., "Understanding the Possible Contribution of Big Data Analysis to Storytelling Process <https://www.academia.edu/36649300/Understanding_the_Possible_Contribution_o…>", in: Linking Business And Communication From A Sparkle To A Flame, Ašanin Gole, Pedja, Ed., DOBA Business School, Maribor, pp.141-154, 2018 _________________________ -- Oğuz Kuş Research Assistant, PhD Candidate Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication Public Relations and Publicity, Beyazıt/İSTANBUL Tel/Istanbul: 0090 212 440 00 00 (11427) _________________________ Publications in 2018: Kuş, O. "Algoritmalar ve Filtre Baloncuğu Çağında Marka Değerinin Yönetilmesi Sorunsalı Üzerine", in Kolektif Zeka - Yeni Medya Perspektifinden Katkılar <https://yenimedya.wordpress.com/2018/10/04/yeni-bir-kitap-kolektif-zeka/>, Morva, Oya; Saka, Erkan, Eds., Kalkedon, 2018 Kuş, O., Efremov L., Suhadolc J., "Digital Marketing and Big Data: Crossing Paths in the Age of Digital Transformation <https://www.academia.edu/36649272/Digital_Marketing_and_Big_Data_Crossing_P…>", in: Linking Business And Communication From A Sparkle To A Flame, Ašanin Gole, Pedja, Ed., DOBA Business School, Maribor, pp.127-140, 2018 Kuş, O., "Understanding the Possible Contribution of Big Data Analysis to Storytelling Process <https://www.academia.edu/36649300/Understanding_the_Possible_Contribution_o…>", in: Linking Business And Communication From A Sparkle To A Flame, Ašanin Gole, Pedja, Ed., DOBA Business School, Maribor, pp.141-154, 2018 _________________________ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lütfen bu e-postayı yazdırmadan önce çevreye olan etkisini dikkate alınız. Unutmayınız ki; dünyadaki kağıt tüketiminin yarısı kazanılırsa, her yıl 8 milyon hektar orman alanı (Ege Bölgesi büyüklüğünde) yok olmaktan kurtulacaktır. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please take into account the impact on the environment before printing this e-mail. Do not forget that if we reduce our paper consumption by half, every year 8 million hectares of forest (an area the size of Aegean Region in Turkey) will be saved from vanishing. ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Defining 'digital age'
by anna conover 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Dear fellow AOIR members, I am writing about education in the digital age but I'm having a hard time pinning down a definition of the extremely broad term 'digital age'. Does anyone have any leads? Very broadly, I am most interested in the challenges posed by globally circulating discourses when we think that these discourses are 'nourished' only by certain voices and that meaning is constructed contextually. Thanks! Anna Doctoral Candidate Teachers College - Columbia University

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Publishing the same article in different languages?
by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hi all, I know most journals only accept original articles (what is quite obvious for a series of reasons), but I wonder if this also (always) applies for translations and, even if it does, what do you think of publishing the same article in different languages? In my case I often publish in English or Portuguese (my mother tongue), but I research Spanish-Speaking groups/individuals (Basque-Speaking as well) and more than once a few interviewees asked me to publish in Spanish what I wrote about them in English journals as to have a broader reach. But they are right, I definitely should also publish in Spanish, and hence my question. Is it okay, possible or whatever to publish an article that was originally in English in, say, Spanish (or Portuguese)? I know in Brazil it is rather ok to publish an article in Portuguese even if it was published in English before if it is from a relevant author or a very relevant topic for the local academia, but I don't know how it works elsewhere. best, Raphael Tsavkko Garcia Universidad de Deusto http://www.tsavkko.com.br [http://www.tsavkko.com.br] --- Este e-mail foi verificado quanto a vírus pelo AVG. http://www.avg.com

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WEBCAST TODAY: The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism
by Joly MacFie 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

This is such a hot event that there have been rumors of people scalping tickets! Watch in comfort online! [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/zuboff>Today, *Friday March 1 2019* at *7pm ET* (00:00 UTC) *The Intercept <https://theintercept.com/>* presents *The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rise-of-surveillance-capitalism-tickets-56…>* in Brooklyn NY. Senior correspondent *Naomi Klein* and Harvard Business School professor *Shoshana Zuboff*, author of “*The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power <https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-survei…>*,” will engage in discussion about the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism” and the quest by corporations to predict and control our behavior. The event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channe*l <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/zuboff>. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/zuboff <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/zuboff>* *VIEW ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/12yKS7VwVyI <https://youtu.be/12yKS7VwVyI>* *VIEW ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/theinterceptflm/ <https://www.facebook.com/theinterceptflm/>* *TWITTER: #SurveillanceCapitalism http://bit.ly/2TbzsAq <http://bit.ly/2TbzsAq>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10946/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Apply to the Citizen Lab Summer Institute
by Maya Ganesh 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hello, The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto is inviting proposals to its two-and-a-half day summer institute: https://citizenlab.ca/2019/02/citizen-lab-summer-institute-2019/ https://citizenlab.ca/summerinstitute/2019.html Deadline: April 1, 2019. This year there is a gender & digital security track for the first time. We would love to see lots of applications from internet and tech researchers who want to workshop and develop ideas with a diverse group of computer scientists,political scientists, cultural scientists, feminists, activists and others. And especially if you are a social or cultural scientist or activist who does not have access to computational experts, this is a great place to bring your ideas and get support to develop them. Please feel free to write me off list if you have questions about your application. Best wishes, Maya ps: there are tracks not related to gender too .... -- Berlin | UTC + 2 T: @mayameme W: bodyofwork.in Fingerprint: D108 EA05 471F 709B E644 18E6 2A9F A109 16D7 EE98

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Mailing List Discussion
by Sugar, Benjamin N 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hey everyone, I thought it might be a good idea to fork this discussion about the mailing list into a new topic. For the backstory, the discussion started at Air-L Digest, Vol 175, Issue 30, Message 4, R: Inquiry on screen shots. I seems the general consensus (which I’ve come to agree with) is that the list should remain as it has for reasons including accessibility of email, archivability, and not wanting the list to become purely announcement based. Having said that, there also seems to be an acknowledgment that this is not without trade offs. The biggest one for me is the inclusion of the entire reply thread in each reply. I did some research and it seems that finding a more automated solution would require some programming of the backend. In lieu of that, perhaps an easier (?) way to mitigate this would be to change the text in the header of the list to something to the effect of: "When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest…” and remove any contents from the previous thread except direct quotations. A threaded web interface can be found at http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org” Benjamin PS: As an aside, the link to web interface that is in the footer of every message is broken.

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Inquiry on screen shots
by evelyne wanjiku 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Greetings members, I am conducting a research on dialogues around revenge pornography on social media platforms, fb, Twitter and telegram I am using a discourse analysis approach. As part of the analysis, i have picked out several dialogues and screen shot them. My question is would it be ok for me to publish screen shots from the various platforms? I have taken precaution to disguise/hide the names/identities of those commenting. Has anyone engaged in such? And what would be your advice with publishing screen shots? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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Reminder [CfP]: iCS Symposium: Social Movements and Parties in a Fractured Media Landscape
by Mercea, Dan 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Dear Colleagues, A reminder that the Information, Communication & Society symposium 'Social Movements and Parties in a Fractured Media Landscape' will take place at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy, on 1-2 July 2019. Please find below the call for papers together with information about abstract submission and keynotes. The deadline for abstracts is 15 March 2019. All the best, Dan ### Social Movements and Parties in a Fractured Media Landscape Information, Communication & Society Symposium which will be hosted by Cosmos (The Centre for Social Movement Studies) at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy, on 1-2 July 2019. Keynote speakers: Donatella della Porta (Cosmos, http://cosmos.sns.it/person/donatella-della-porta/) Ethan Zuckerman (MIT, https://www.media.mit.edu/people/ethanz/overview/) Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2019. Abstracts/biographies/contact details should be sent to dan.mercea.1(a)city.ac.uk<mailto:dan.mercea.1@city.ac.uk>. A selection of papers presented at the symposium will be published in a special issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society (iCS). More info: http://cosmos.sns.it/news/call-for-papers-social-movements-and-parties-in-a…. This two-day symposium held under the auspices of the journal 'Information, Communication & Society' (iCS) considers the shifting terrain of contemporary democratic politics. Over the course of this decade, a wave of popular discontent swept across much of the world, stoked by the financial crisis, the ensuing austerity and deep disenchantment with political institutions in both liberal democracies and autocracies. Social movements channelled and articulated aspirations for greater democratic accountability and participation, more equitable economic policies, greater concern for social welfare and climate change. Against a secular decline in party membership, voter turnout and institutional trust, movements have rekindled a participatory imaginary challenging the status quo of many democratic countries. Criticized for a supposed inability to enact the political and social change they advocated, social movements were harbingers of a new political vehicle, the movement party. The rise and electoral success of party movements-from Podemos in Spain, to Cinque Stelle in Italy, Jobbik in Hungary, Momentum in the UK or La Republique en Marche in France-captured aspirations for progressive change as well as anger and anxieties about globalisation, migration and the socio-economic and cultural upheaval that such processes have wrought. Occupying the breadth of the ideological spectrum-from the far right to the radical left-these movements put forward a radical criticism of political or media institutions, advocating participatory as well as populist reformulations of notions of citizenship, civic practices and organisational structures. Against the odds, they have scaled up, endured and have the potential to become entrenched despite the initially limited resources available to them. Notwithstanding their ideological differences, digital media appear to have provided important opportunities for the emergence of techno-populist 'connective' movements and parties in media systems largely unfavourable to them, thereby posing renewed challenges to incumbents. Considering the above, the symposium will grapple with such questions as: what does the rising prominence of social and/or party movements mean for democracy? What are the consequences of their rise for representative democracy? What explains their presence on both the left and the right of the political spectrum? How does their digital media use bear on their organisational structures and cultures or their relationship with the media? The symposium invites scholars and other informed observers to present papers discussing how over the last decade, social movements, party movements and other collective actors emerging in the fractured contemporary media landscape have produced knowledge, learn and develop new or overhaul existing participatory cultures and techno-populist identities; congeal competitive political agendas that challenge established political positions; rekindle trust and even faith in political leadership and democratic governance; (re)shaped (un)conventional citizenship norms, practices and action repertoires, harnessing affordances of self-publication technologies, data analytics and news media values to maximize their visibility, appeal and reach while also at times critiquing the dominant commercial logics of media and social media companies. Building on these considerations, we encourage submissions that address but are not limited to the following aims: * Discuss media strategies and/or tactics of social and/or party movements and individual activists, how they relate to ongoing transformation of media systems, shifting media diets and practices that are increasingly dominated by the use of digital and social media; * Map the use of digital technologies in social and/or party movements, the extent to which it inflects on organisational networks, structures and cultures and whether these depart from late-modern and pre-crisis models of political organisation; * Consider how support for social and/or party movements is articulated publicly in squares, on social platforms, through partisan outlets, in mainstream media or combinations thereof and potential reasons for them; * Investigate the language use of social and/or party movements-and responses to it by institutions and various section of the public-particularly as it challenges deliberative norms or if it is associated with disruptive communication techniques such as click-baiting, trolling, spoofing, making use of disinformation or misinformation; * Reflect on the conversion of some movements into parties, the tensions emerging between the grassroots and the leadership once social and/or party movements enter institutions and the extent to which digital media may mitigate or exacerbate such conflicts; * Investigate knowledge transfer and learning processes that transform movements, their support base, organization or goals and the role of digital media in such processes; * Propose ethical methodological innovations especially through the deployment of trace data gathering tools that can facilitate access to and rapport with hard-to-reach, research-apprehensive movement actors like far-right movement parties; * Develop innovative qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods techniques to explore the use of digital media within social and/ or party movements; * Reflect on the bearing of (digital) media and communication strategies and tactics on the electoral success of social and/or party movements in local, national or European elections; * Explore contrasts in the popular mobilization and/or electoral success of populist party movements on the right and the left while contemplating the contribution that digital and social media made to it. We invite 500-word abstracts outlining empirical, theoretical or policy-oriented papers that address these or cognate topics. The abstract should point to study conclusions. It should be accompanied by a 100-word biography of the presenter(s) together with contact details. Abstracts/biographies/contact details should be emailed to Dan Mercea (dan.mercea.1(a)city.ac.uk<mailto:dan.mercea.1@city.ac.uk>). All papers presented at the symposium will receive comments from a discussant. Following the symposium, paper authors will be invited to submit their manuscripts for publication in a special issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society.

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Just published: "Qu'est-ce qu'une archive du Web?", OpenEdition Press
by Francesca Musiani 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce, especially to the francophones among you, that the book "Qu'est-ce qu'une archive du Web?" ("What is a Web Archive?"), that I co-authored with Camille Paloque-Bergès, Valérie Schafer and Benjamin G. Thierry, is now published with OpenEdition Press. We are especially delighted that the book has been selected as one of the six 'pioneer' works in the programme OpenEdition Books Select <https://oep.hypotheses.org/2181>, and is thus immediately and fully available in open access in HTML, PDF and EPUB formats here <https://books.openedition.org/oep/8713>. Happy reading! Kind regards Francesca -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Chargée de recherche | Associate Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, Centre for Internet and Society [CIS], UPR 2000 Chercheuse associée | Associate Researcher, i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech Global Fellow, Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I'm involved in: CPT <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/cp-t>-IAMCR | @PolicyR <http://policyreview.info/> | ISOC Franc <https://www.isoc.fr>e <https://www.isoc.fr> | CSA Lab <https://www.csa.fr/Informer/CSA-lab/Fonctionnement> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> On the Web <http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1960> | On Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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